State and Tribe in Nineteenth-century Afghanistan: The Reign of Amir Dost ... - Christine Noelle, Noelle Christin - Google Books

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With the exception of two short periods of direct British intervention during the Anglo-Afghan Wars of 1839-42 and 1878-80, the history of nineteenth-century Afghanistan has received little attention from western scholars. This study seeks to shift the…